Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of conserving.
- n. Preservation or restoration from loss, damage, or neglect: manuscripts saved from deterioration under the program of library conservation.
- n. The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water.
- n. The maintenance of a physical quantity, such as energy or mass, during a physical or chemical change.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of conserving,guarding, or keeping with care; preservation from loss, decay, injury, or violation; the keeping of a thing in a safe or entire state.
- n. Persistence; perdurance; permanence.
- n. In England, a court or board of commissioners having jurisdiction over a port (as London, Liverpool, etc.) or of a river (as the Thames, the Mersey, etc.), and charged with the regulation as well as the conservation of its navigation, fisheries, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- n. A wise use of natural resources.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
- n. an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
- n. the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
Examples
“The term conservation was first applied to water resources.”
“Gentlemen, conservation is a word that has wide application and meaning, but in the last five years it has become a hackneyed, much-abused term, glibly used by many who hunt and fish, few of whom have any idea what the word means or what it entails.”
“Among his other favorite places are Cuba's Zapata Swamp, which he described as a conservation triumph.”
“Simply inserting the word "conservation" in the pesticide label and slightly watering down the percentage of the active ingredient, brodifacoum, does not make this rodenticide safe for wildlife, nor will it make it any less persistent.”
The Huffington Post: Maggie Sergio: The Proposal to Poison a Wildlife Refuge
“Now, the biggest sector fuelling 65 percent of green jobs, it's what they call conservation and pollution mitigation.”
“One of the conservation laws that Leibniz takes to govern the behavior of material bodies is what he calls the conservation of relative velocity (GM VI. 227/Langley 667).”
“Nevertheless, we believe the physicists have pretty generally agreed to assume as a law of Nature what they call the conservation of force, the principle we have been endeavoring to explain.”
“Firstly, many will be false positives – "conservation" is a spectrum, so the definition of a conserved element depends on where you draw the line, and the noise resulting from drift will always create some areas that appear conserved without being functional.”
“It was the first of its kind in East Africa, and it began a conservation effort long before the word conservation was in the public’s mind or vocabulary.”
“The Republicans for Environmental Protection, conservatives who believe in conservation, are continuing their criticism of their own party for demonizing cap-and-trade legislation as an “energy tax”.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘conservation’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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ITRE - energy - general terms
above-market cost, access charge, actual peak load ..., affiliate, affiliated power ..., after-market, aggregation, aggregator, Alternating Curre..., Ampere, ancillary services, annual effects and 453 more...
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museum words
words from work
provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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ENVI - water protection
population equiva..., absorptive proper..., abstraction rate, abundance, acaricide, accidental pollution, admixture, adsorption, agglomeration, algicide, alkalinity, angiosperms and 398 more...
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
dust bowl, walking stick, rain forest, cherry tree, sugar maple, asteroid belt, boll weevil, weather forecast, sulphur dioxide, lake trout, heart rate, rainbow trout and 480 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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So You Want To Save Some Energy?
Words related to energy, and the saving thereof.
energy, efficiency, conservation, amp, watt, conductivity, wattage, bill, power, sustainability, eco, sensor and 13 more...
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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 281 more...
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pol.and envnment
kirlenme ve çevre
harmful, destroying, the ozone layer, global warming, conservation, greens, exhaust fumes, dumping, aerosol cans, recycled, resources
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vaca 22000_5
vaca 22000_5
pollution, contamination, wastes, recycle, acid rain, the ozone layer, green house effect, preservation, conservation, wild life, endangered species, habitat
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OM3 Lesson 32
donuts, doughnuts, used, dozen, dozens, variety, carpool, gasoline, gas, gallon, million, a day and 38 more...
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